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75. HELIX SUPPRESSA, SAY. 



PLATE XXXVII. FIGURE 1. 



H. testa convexo-depressa, minute perforata, nitida, luteo- 

 cornea ; anfractibus sex, crebre et minute striatis ; labro 

 simplici, acuto, intus incrassato ; apertura transversal!, dente 

 unico lamelliformi armata. 



SYNONYMS AND REFERENCES. 



Helix suppressa, SAY, Disseminator, &c. 



Desc. of New Terr, and Fluv. Shells, 14. 

 BINNEY, Boston Journ. Nat. Hist. III. 410, pi. 11, f. 3. 



DESCRIPTION. 



ANIMAL bluish-black, darker on the head, tentacles, 

 and neck ; superior tentacles long and filiform, lower 

 short. Length twice the diameter of the shell. On the 

 upper surface of the extremity of the foot is a longi- 

 tudinal fissure or furrow, from which mucus exudes in 

 great quantities, and which the animal shuts and closes 

 at will. 



SHELL convex-depressed, thin, pellucid ; epidermis 

 polished, yellowish horn-color ; spire flat ; whorls six, 

 with crowded, minute, oblique striae ; suture impressed, 

 distinct ; aperture transverse, not expanded ; lip simple, 

 thin at its edge, thickened within ; base rather convex, 

 near the aperture opaque, yellowish w r hite ; umbilicus 

 small, but rounded and distinct, in young shells, obsolete 

 or hardly apparent in older ones ; within the aperture 

 on the outer lip, are one or two lamelliform, elongated, 

 oblique teeth. 



Greatest transverse diameter one-fourth of an inch. 



